Protestant Missionary Activities in California, 1849-1859
Author: Robert Cleland Mann
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Published: 1950
Total Pages: 376
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Author: Robert Cleland Mann
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Published: 1950
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Brian Roberts
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003-06-19
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 080786093X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCalifornia during the gold rush was a place of disputed claims, shoot-outs, gambling halls, and prostitution; a place populated by that rough and rebellious figure, the forty-niner; in short, a place that seems utterly unconnected to middle-class culture. In American Alchemy, however, Brian Roberts offers a surprising challenge to this assumption. Roberts points to a long-neglected truth of the gold rush: many of the northeastern forty-niners who ventured westward were in fact middle-class in origin, status, and values. Tracing the experiences and adventures both of these men and of the "unseen" forty-niners--women who stayed back East while their husbands went out West--he shows that, whatever else the gold seekers abandoned on the road to California, they did not simply turn their backs on middle-class culture. Ultimately, Roberts argues, the story told here reveals an overlooked chapter in the history of the formation of the middle class. While the acquisition of respectability reflects one stage in this history, he says, the gold rush constitutes a second stage--a rebellion against standards of respectability.
Author: University of California (1868-1952)
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 1126
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 432
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Published: 1950
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hamish Ion
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2010-07-01
Total Pages: 443
ISBN-13: 0774858990
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJapan closed its doors to foreigners for over two hundred years because of religious and political instability caused by Christianity. By 1859, foreign residents were once again living in treaty ports in Japan, but edicts banning Christianity remained enforced until 1873. Drawing on an impressive array of English and Japanese sources, Ion investigates a crucial era in the history of Japanese-American relations the formation of Protestant missions. He reveals that the transmission of values and beliefs was not a simple matter of acceptance or rejection: missionaries and Christian laymen persisted in the face of open hostility and served as important liaisons between East and West.
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 786
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Published: 1948
Total Pages: 984
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Published: 1861
Total Pages: 804
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: University of California, Berkeley
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 1132
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